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Dawn, Paul. Paul Dawn was created by James Yaffe and appeared in six stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine from 1943 to 1946, beginning with “D.I.C.” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1943).

Paul Dawn is the head of “an obscure little office connected to the Homicide Squad, known as the D.I.C.—The Department of Impossible Crimes.” Dawn solves those impossible crimes, although in a roundabout manner: “…for him any form of concentrated thought was an effort. He usually got better results by giving his mind a free hand and letting it spread out in whichever direction it liked.”

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